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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 7
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Job asks: Is there an appointed time for man on earth?  What is man that thou shouldst magnify him?  Why dost thou not pardon my transgression?
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<i><span class='smallcaps'>Is</span> there</i> not an <sup>a</sup><a href="job/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 12: 27 (26-28); D&C 42: 48; D&C 121: 25.">appointed</a> time to man upon earth?  <i>are not</i> his days also like the days of an <sup>b</sup><a href="job/7/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 14: 6 (5-6).">hireling</a>?
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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for <i>the reward of</i> his work:
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So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone?  and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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My <sup>a</sup><a href="job/7/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 8: 9; Job 10: 20; Job 17: 11.">days</a> are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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O remember that my life <i>is</i> wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no <i>more: </i>thine eyes <i>are</i> upon me, and I <i>am</i> not.
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<i>As</i> the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no <i>more.</i>
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He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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Therefore I will not <sup>a</sup><a href="job/7/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR restrain.">refrain</a> my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will <sup>b</sup><a href="job/7/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 16: 20; D&C 9: 6.">complain</a> in the bitterness of my soul.
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<i>Am</i> I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, <i>and</i> death rather than my life.
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I loathe <i>it;</i> I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days <i>are</i> vanity.
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What <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/7/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 8: 4 (1-9); Ps. 144: 3 (1-15).">man</a>, that thou shouldest magnify him?  and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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And <i>that</i> thou shouldest visit him every morning, <i>and</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/7/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Probation.">try</a> him every moment?
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How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?  why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?  for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I <i>shall</i> not <i>be.</i>
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